Water and air wheel



(No Model.)

D. B. JAMES.

WATER AND AIR WHEEL.

Patentd May 2, 1882.

5i llllllllll UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID BIGE JAMES, OFSAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

WATER AND AIR WHEEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters lPatent No. 257,166, dated May 2, 1882.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DAVID Bron JAMES, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and Stateof California, have invented an Improved Double-Bucket Water-W.heel,of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in water-wheels and wind-motors in which two rows of buckets are fixed to the outer face of the periphery of a wheel and stand vertically on a line with the center of the wheel, and each bucket slanting at right angles toward each other alternately and at equal distances apart from each side of the face of the wheel to its center, leaving a water-way from each bucket to the next, and when applied with force the water reacts from one bucket to the other until it is passed off at a tangentfrom a straight line across that portion of the wheel or segment containing the number of buckets that the power has been applied upon before it is Spent.

The objects of my invention and improvewent are, first, to obtaimthe greatest percentage of the power of water or air undera pressure or head applied directly against the buckets of the wheel, which I obtain by creating a positive reactionary force from one bucket to another in the way that the buckets are arranged to the face of the wheel,and also more positively obtained by inclosing or casing a segment of the wheel and its buckets, so that the water hasa force on several of the inclosed 3 5 buckets at the same time (without any cut-off,

as in the arrangementof the buckets of other water-wheels)untilitis discharged. As there is a free and clear passage around the periphery of the face of the wheel between the buck- 0 ets, the actual power of the water is multi- 4 5 this improved reactionary wheel is constructed and the arrangement of the buckets on the face of the wheel, in which Figure l is a side elevation of wheel, hone in gor casing, and water-pipe. Fig. 2isafront elevation section, showing the arrangement of the buckets upon the face of the wheel.

Similar letters refer to similar partsin both views. r

A and B are buckets that are set at opposite angles to each other vertically from the center on the face of the wheel, slanting at right angles inwardly and outwardly toward each other, each reaching diagonally half-way across the face of the wheel, and each bucket alternately the same distance apart around the face of the periphery of the wheel.

O is a housing that fits as close to the buckets as clearance of the same will admit of. The buckets on a segment of the wheel receive the full force of the water or air when inclosed in the casing until the buckets leave it, and the water or air is discharged. D is the water-pipe that carries water to the wheel;

I am aware that prior to my invention Water-wheels have been made with inclosed and cut-off buckets, that the force of water acts upon the buckets of a wheel in a different way from what it does on the wheel of my inventing that I have described; and

What I desire to claim and secure by Letters Patent is-- 1. A wateror air wheelhaving a double row of buckets arranged obliquely on the periphery thereof at right an gles to each other, whereby a reactionary force is caused by thepassage of water or air from one bucket to another, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with an air or water wheel having buckets A 13 set obliquely on the periphery thereof at right angles to each other,

of the housing 0 and pipe D, substantially as 7 A. H. HAGEDOR, L. MEININGER. 

